History of Economic Thought // Spring 2025
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Karl Marx (1818—1883)
1818: Born in Trier, state of Prussia.
1835: Entered law school, University of Bonn.
1836: Transferred to University of Berlin.
1839: Switched to Philosophy, defended his thesis (on Greek philosophy, U. of Jena) with the goal of becoming a university lecturer.
1841: Journalism career: Deutsche Jahrbücher and Rheinische Zeitung.
1842: First meeting with Friedrich Engels.
1843: Marriage to Jenny von Westphalen.
1843: Moves to Paris; founds Deutsch-Franzosische Jahrbücher.
1844: Publication of Introduction to A Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and writes Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts.
Germany vs. France and Britain
French and Industrial Revolutions
Germany’s backwardness (aka “anachronism”)
Georg W.F. Hegel (1770—1831)
The Phenomenology of the Spirit (1807)